Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
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Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#2Shocking that a “Scholastic Aptitude Test” or “American College Test” would predict future scholastic achievement at the collegiate level.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#3this says more (good stuff) about Dartmouth than it does about the standardized tests. If scoring higher on something that is close to an IQ test doesn't predict higher academic performance, what does that say about the coursework?
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#4Smart people are smart.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#5To measure academic achievement they use First Year GPA. It makes sense they're correlated, both require studying known material for a test. But is GPA the best measure, especially first year? I would be interested in other metrics like 3rd-4th year GPA or placements into jobs and such.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#6So, students entering Dartmouth with a higher SAT score also have higher first year GPAs. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone considering they are both basically testing the same thing.
The fact that over the last couple decades employers at large have stopped asking for college GPAs (and by extension SAT scores) on their job applications should instead tell you that all these numbers have very little relevance in the real world.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#7They should "un-bin" the statistics and identify individual outliers -- those who scored poorly on the tests but hold higher GPA, and vice versa, and learn things from these individual students.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#8Shocking that a “Scholastic Aptitude Test” or “American College Test” would predict future scholastic achievement at the collegiate level.
Those are marketing terms, though.
It's not trivial to go from performance on a single test to performance throughout the year, which will include long-form writing, lab work, and other forms of learning.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#9To measure academic achievement they use First Year GPA. It makes sense they're correlated, both require studying known material for a test. But is GPA the best measure, especially first year? I would be interested in other metrics like 3rd-4th year GPA or placements into jobs and such.
I didn't read the entire document in depth, but perhaps it has been shown elsewhere that first year GPA is a good quality predictor of GPA in subsequent years.
Re: Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]
#10To measure academic achievement they use First Year GPA. It makes sense they're correlated, both require studying known material for a test. But is GPA the best measure, especially first year? I would be interested in other metrics like 3rd-4th year GPA or placements into jobs and such.
I believe they do look at other things (EDIT: or at least the study this paper was based on did):
"Using detailed admissions data from IvyPlus institutions, Chetty, Deming, and Friedman (2023) show that SAT and ACT scores also predict career success, including high levels of earnings and attendance at elite graduate schools, holding family income constant."